Meddybemps

[Doug Bassett]

Colby College is located in Waterville (nowhere near Meddybemps), and has been accepting female students since the early 1870s.  In fact, Colby was the first all-male college in New England to go co-ed.  Both of my parents are graduates of Colby.

Doug Bassett
Brattleboro, VT


--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:

> From: Dan.Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> Subject: Meddybemps
> To: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 6:06 AM
> Yesterday, someone mentioned an FM licensed to Meddybemps as
> a station
> that serves Calais. That brought to mind a singing group
> called the
> Meddybempsters, which I believe is the name of long-running
> a
> barbershop quartet or a capella chorus composed of students
> from Colby
> College, which is also in Maine, though I don't believe
> especially
> near Meddybemps. I think I remember hearing a few
> recordings of the
> Meddybempsters on the radio years ago. Perhaps it was Carl
> deSuze who
> played them. I suspect it was he who would mention the name
> of the
> group on the air from time to time. He would say it fast
> and I could
> never quite figure out what he was saying. (I think my best
> guess was
> merry bumpsters.) Anyhow, does the group still exist? I
> think that
> back in those days, Colby was a men's college. Has
> Colby now gone
> co-ed like so many formerly all-male colleges? If so, is
> there a
> female counterpart to the Meddybempsters?  And does one
> call a
> four-person all-women's a capella group a beautyshop
> quartet?
> 
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